All state constitutions drafted prior to the Bill of Rights contained a double jeopardy provision. The principle was so universal that when James Madison proposed on the floor of the First ...

A murderer who was only jailed for killing a woman after a change in the double jeopardy law should be ... 17 years in 2006 following a successful campaign to change the law by Ms Hogg's family.

THEREFORE, THEY ARGUE, RETRYING HER WOULD VIOLATE HER CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION AGAINST DOUBLE JEOPARDY. WE HAD A LENGTHY ARGUMENT IN FRONT OF THE CHIEF JUDGE OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ...